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What is the point of it ? Kramnik basically makes two good points. One is that the castling rule is illogical and arbitrary, and may have been introduced for reasons that make no sense today. The other is that the game is much more interesting when the players have to figure out for themselves how ...

What is the point of it ? Kramnik basically makes two good points. One is that the castling rule is illogical and arbitrary, and may have been introduced for reasons that make no sense today. The other is that the game is much more interesting when the players have to figure out for themselves how ...

Important tourney is underway and 400+ engines loaded and working for the most part....Text Crosstable shows ELO +/- but did not see a ELO/ratings box for the various engines....is it hiding somewhere? Elo will be in the release of this weekend (version 0.10). Manual adjudication box would be helpf...

Hi, I played 100 games against Stockfish 10 x64 1CPU under CEGT 40/20 conditions. Grafikcard is GTX 1650: 1 LCZero 0.23.1 Cuda (58573) +45 +23/=67/-10 56.50% 56.5/100 2 Stockfish 10.0 x64 1CPU -45 +10/=67/-23 43.50% 43.5/100 I ask me: are larger networks really better under these test conditions ? ...

Engines need to know that they're playing armageddon. So they need to be taught playing that mode. I agree, in the same way AlphaZero has been trained to play No Castling Chess, Lc0 must learn No Castling Chess or BNC with draw advantage, while alpha-beta programs must be also modified. A new openi...

Engines need to know that they're playing armageddon. So they need to be taught playing that mode. I agree, in the same way AlphaZero has been trained to play No Castling Chess, Lc0 must learn No Castling Chess or BNC with draw advantage, while alpha-beta programs must be also modified. A new openi...

Engines need to know that they're playing armageddon. So they need to be taught playing that mode. I agree, in the same way AlphaZero has been trained to play No Castling Chess, Lc0 must learn No Castling Chess or BNC with draw advantage, while alpha-beta programs must be also modified. A new openi...

Engines need to know that they're playing armageddon. So they need to be taught playing that mode. I agree, in the same way AlphaZero has been trained to play No Castling Chess, Lc0 must learn No Castling Chess or BNC with draw advantage, while alpha-beta programs must be also modified. A new openi...

I am on the phone and TeamViewer now, but the result with Contempt = 75 White Contempt = True is almost identical: 60+0.6 White wins: 99/200 Draws: 94/200 Black Wins: 7/200 The openings were built with the White Contempt = 50 (and no Black castling), so I would not worry too much about them. An int...

As to whether players (both OTB and correspondence players) would prefer no castling or a missing pawn to compensate draw odds, my opinion is that most would accept no castling more readily than missing pawn. No castling requires the other side to attack, while missing pawn requires the superior si...